- If China invaded Taiwan it would destroy world trade, says James Cleverly | China https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/25/if-china-invaded-taiwan-it-would-destroy-world-trade-says-james-cleverly 7 comments economics
- While we're over here trying to destroy each other, China just signed a very important trade deal that would increase their economic influence in the world. https://news.yahoo.com/huge-asian-trade-pact-signed-002503549.html 166 comments moderatepolitics
- Third largest dam in the world to be built in Brazilian rain forest - would displace 20,000 people and destroy more than 100,000 acres of rain forest. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/04/201145115820561110.html# 631 comments science
- Canada gives $81B (IMF) annually to the dirtiest, most expensive, most inefficient, planet destroying, fossil fuel industry in the world. Imagine what $81B would do for renewables. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fossil-fuel-subsidies-expaliner-1.6371411 15 comments energy
- [Manuel Veth] #Barca doesn't want to sign off on #LaLiga's CVC deal, which would destroy the club's Super League ambitions. LaLiga wants to bury the Super League once and for all and won't register Messi until Barcelona sign off on the deal. That's how the club lost the world's best player. https://twitter.com/manuelveth/status/1423353174962982916?s=21 191 comments soccer
- We Need to Start Taxing Bitcoin: Bitcoin is an asset so useless that even if a financial transactions tax completely destroyed it, the world would be better off. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/bitcoin-crypto-financial-transactions-tax-ftt-greenhouse-gas-emissions-cepr 35 comments technology
- World Recoils As Trump Threatens Iranian Cultural Sites | Destroying culturally significant sites would likely constitute a war crime, and for good reason. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-cultural-heritage-sites-trump-threat_n_5e135592c5b6b5a713be3150 22 comments politics
- Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows: "What we are doing is using taxpayers' money to boost hurricanes, to spread droughts, to melt glaciers, to bleach corals. In one word: to destroy the world." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/01/shifting-subsidies-renewable-energy-instead-propping-fossil-fuel-giants-would-prompt 9 comments worldnews
- Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would destroy the American economy by detonating the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market; and that would collapse the world banking system, crushing the world’s $80 trillion GDP and causing an unprecedented depression. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/20/iran-goes-for-maximum-counter-pressure/ 9 comments economy
- Why is Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell u/nullc trying to pretend AXA isn't one of the top 5 "companies that control the world"? AXA relies on debt & derivatives to pretend it's not bankrupt. Million-dollar Bitcoin would destroy AXA's phony balance sheet. How much is AXA paying Greg to cripple Bitcoin? https://archive.fo/o/yWnWh/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXA 73 comments btc
- The White House Budget (If Passed) Would Destroy the Post World War Two World Order http://www.undispatch.com/white-house-budget-passed-destroy-post-world-war-two-world-order/ 5 comments politics
- The world can't afford another financial crash -- it could destroy capitalism as we know it: "A new economic crisis would trigger a political backlash in Britain, Europe and the United States which could drag us all down into poverty" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/12151115/the-world-cant-afford-another-financial-crash-it-could-destroy-capitalism-as-we-know-it.html 4 comments business
- The Commonwealth Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt is giving the go-ahead to build what could become one of the world's largest coal ports in the surrounds of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. This would destroy the reef. http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/news/climate/industrialisation-of-reef/ 8 comments worldnews
- Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ap-exclusive-diagram-suggests-iran-working-on-nuclear-bomb-much-more-powerful-than-hiroshima/2012/11/27/5a5110e8-38ad-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html?tid=socialss 6 comments worldnews
- These current Republicans would rather destroy the US economy than sacrifice one scintilla of ideological purity. They are an imminent threat to the stability of this country's economy and the world's. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/06/cantors-cant.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2Frapm+%28the+daily+dish%29 4 comments politics